Thursday, 19 May 2011

Jeux de Perles

A lot of shops are closing down in Saint-Louis neighbourhood, more's the pity as they are independent shops. One of my favourites, which I showed you here and here, has already closed. Now 'Jeux de Perles', or 'Pearl games' is about to close. Check out Stéphanie's wonderful stuff until June 25. Her lovely blog can be seen here.

Ah, this is a universal sorrow, isn't it? You've touched such a tender nerve here. We all wish the best to these independent shop owners who have given so much time and energy, hope and cash to make their businesses work. May they land on their feet, wherever they go next. And very soon may something equally wonderful come into the void they leave.

It is the same here. People buy many things via internet.And the people who rent small shops, very often have to pay a very high rent for a shop they don`t can manage to buy, plus tax VAT etc. takes much too.Very nice and creative shops! I hope they will manage to go in to sale via the internet, or find a new and smaller place to run their shop from.Thanks for the link!

It's really a pity.It's not easy to keep doing business these days.*** In Brasil, Marina used to buy some pearls, different colors and sizes and make her own fantasy bijoux, she is very creative!It was also so funny.Léia

This is truly sad. The same is happening everywhere around here. There's a shopping mall (I hate them all) in my neighbourhood and one of these days I counted 32 shops with closed doors. Even in a shopping mall this is heartbreaking, although I know these have previously ruined many small street shops.

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